World Cup icons...1991 >> Brendan Gallagher looks back at the players who shone on the biggest stage

All sorts of players have taken the World Cup by storm and assumed iconic status. Some seize the moment to announce their arrival on the world scene while others, as we saw last week with Dave Kirk, others depart the sporting arena at a World Cup with a vital or historically important contribution.
And then there is the likes of David Campese who had already been lighting up rugby stadia for nearly a decade when he arrived at RWC1991, a tournament which served to underline and confirm ...